Undercover

Interesting Facts 1. Ellen DeGeneres graduated high school from Atlanta High in May, 1976 after moving from Metairie, Louisiana to Atlanta, Texas. She moved with her mom after she divorced, but soon got remarried to her stepfather. 2. One of Ellen DeGeneres’s first movies was a movie called “Mr. Wrong” where she played one of the lead roles named Martha Alston, who was looking for her Mr. Right, but soon after finding him, she realizes that instead he is Mr. Wrong. 3. Ellen DeGeneres loves…

During this week’s assignment I found the interview of Dr. Allen Frances was very interesting. Being in the Human Services program here at SCC and wanting to become a social worker I have been told that I need to be familiar with the DSM-5. I definitely agree with him that normality is difficult to define and it has become a cultural concept rather than a medical concept. Dr. Allen Frances states that our society is already immersed in pill popping which I didn’t find surprising at all. My…

On August 27, 1776 the Battle of Long Island was fought in Long Island, New York. George Washington lead his army to New York after the British retreated from Boston. Washington knew the British would attack New York City first, because of its strategic location, and he was right. A large British fleet, lead by General William Howe, arrived in New York in July. The Continental Army was already completely outnumbered by the British. The British offered Washington a pardon from the king if he…

In 1692, Puritans in colonial Massachusetts faced an interesting event called the Salem Witch Trials. The first sign of witchcraft was discovered when two girls, Elizabeth and Williams were having “fits.” The local doctor blamed their unusual movements on the supernatural. Satan worried the Puritan community because they believed that they always had to behave to go to heaven. Whether puritans were in or out of their home, they believed the devil was always watching them which is why they were…

computers are tapped by the government. Policemen are used as undercover spies, causing distrust between citizens, keeping them in line. Also, all forms of foreign communication have been cut off. There is no easy way in or out. The entire country is barricaded by a twenty foot tall electric fence, patrolled constantly by the military. Only three citizens have ever managed to escape the country. Currently, BBC has stationed an undercover reporter feeding news about the country to the…

When we hear the name Sherlock Holmes, many people automatically think of the greatest detective known to man. However, in Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s “Scandal in Bohemia” this is not the case. A woman by the name of Irene Adler is introduced or better known as the woman to Sherlock. Towards the end of the story Sherlock Holmes finds a letter that was left for him by Irene. The letter itself is a symbol for what had previously just happened throughout the entire story, and exemplifies a major role…

present under the tree. I looked at the name tag for who it was for, it was for me. I picked it up and shook it, I couldn’t hear anything. I ripped it open to find a piece of paper. The paper said ‘You have been chosen out of a special group to go undercover and fight crime over the world’. I was confused, ‘why would a 16 year old like me get chosen to stop crime all over the world?’ I thought. I mean, I could outrun a car at 100 mph. While I was thinking about this I heard a knock on my door. I…

When someone is different from others, people alienate them. In both The Mousetrap by Agatha Christie and Welcome to Night Vale by Jeffrey Cranor and Joseph Fink, the characters feel disconnected from others. In Night Vale, Diane Crayton is raising her teenaged son Josh after breaking up with her boyfriend, Troy, who is also Josh’s father. Josh sets out to find his father, whom he has never known. When Diane hears him asking around town about someone, she assumes he has a crush. However, he is…

versus self. The private and public identities of major characters, such as Oedipus and Jocasta, frame these conflicts. Oedipus was born to the fate of killing his father and marrying his mother. He undergoes problematic experiences when trying to undercover his private identity, which is something he is born with, not something he can choose. His traumatic private identity is that he is the son of Laius and Jocasta. Oedipus’ public identity can be characterized as someone who is an assertive…

The nonfiction book, Nickel and Dimed, written by the undercover journalist Barbara Ehrenreich. Ehrenreich goes out to investigate what it’s like to be a low-wage worker and how it’s like for them to get by in America. Ehrenreich does this by leaving her life of well paying job as journalists, forgets the fact that she has a Ph.D. in biology along with her normal life, and sets out to working six to seven dollars an hour in different places by doing different jobs. Along the way of her…